“Love is one of the defining elements of life. Whether it is brief or lasting, spontaneous or carefully constructed it is the epitome of human relationships.”

MARIO BENEDETTI

This book includes the best love poems written by Mario Benedetti, one of the most innovative, fun, ambitious and modern poets in Spanish.

Love, Women and Life brings together a series of poems that have won acclaim with several different generations, in which Benedetti infuses his view of life: the idea of love as compensation for death comes out in these forthright verses, presenting it as the main driver of humanity, a proclamation of existence, ranging from a lover’s eroticism to the hope of the revolutionary or the gratitude of a friend.